Backwoods and Town

Backwoods

Backwoods noun - A rural region that forms the edge of the settled or developed part of a country.

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Town and backwoods are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Town" instead a noun "Backwoods".

Town noun - A thickly settled, highly populated area.

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Backwoods and town are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Backwoods" instead a noun "Town".

Nearby Words: township, townsman

rural	rural backwoods	rural town
creepy	creepy backwoods	creepy town

Abraham Lincoln grew up in the backwoods; however, he eventually took up town living as a lawyer.

Source: Farm Boy
Boyd Crowder in Justified is very fond of this trope, often using it to prove to others that just because he's from a backwoods Kentucky town, he's not stupid.

Source: Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
Synopsis: Once, a brother and sister went to a sleepy town in the backwoods of Oregon, and their views of the world were changed forever.

Source: Fanfic Recs / Gravity Falls

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